Alberta expands free diagnostic and X ray services plan
Alberta will receive federal cost sharing to cover diagnostic and X ray services with about 40 percent funded by Ottawa and 20 percent charged to users. Health Minister Dr. J Donovan Ross says the extension reduces in patient bed demand and may include private clinics by 1966 if approved.
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Edmonton
Alberta
J. Donovan Ross
Ross
Ottawa
Medical Services Incorporated
Sife
Dr. Ross
King Leads March to Alabama Capitol in Voter Drive
More than 15,000 people led by Dr. Martin Luther King marched from a muddy camp to the Alabama State Capitol in a major protest for Negro voting rights. Coretta King and Ralph Bunche joined. Canadian participants and guardsmen surrounded the event. A Dallas County lawsuit to halt the bus boycott delayed the march briefly before the noon end.
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Montgomery
Ala
Martin Luther King
Alabama
Weiss wins at Canadian Western Indoor Rodeo in Edmonton
Dick Havens Madden Alta rode Neck Lace to 77 and first round bareback bucking money defeating Ted Vavro Tabor Alta who scored 75. Gerry Weiss Medicine Hat won first round bull riding with 68 as two Alberta cowboys split saddle bronc money, Wayne Wold DeWinton Alta 79 led first round.
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Edmonton
Dick Havens
Madden
Alta
Havens
Neck Lace
Ted Vavro
Tabor
Norris DeMaree
Billings
Mont
Gerry Weiss
Medicine Hat
Alberta
Favreau denies RCMP told to close probe in pled prompted case
Crown witness Rod Deslauriers testified that Yvon Dupuis received $10,000 in 1961 to back a Quebec racetrack charter bid and tried to conceal the matter from Prime Minister Pearson. Deslauriers detailed cash delivery and 1961 letters to imply Dupuis later reversed support. The MP faced influence-peddling charges and appeared in a preliminary hearing in St. Johns.
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ST. Johns
Que
Rod Deslauriers
Yvon Dupuis
Quebec
Pearson
Deslauriers
Dupuis
Mr. Deslauriers
Paul Earl
Quebec Revenue
Rims of lunar craters may offer safer landing zones
Pasadena scientists citing 5814 Ranger IX photos say crater rims could provide safer lunar landing sites than plains. At a JPL press conference they linked red flashes in Alphonsus to possible volcanic activity and noted crater rims appear unusually level and solidified lava floors may collapse under weight.
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Pasadena
Calif
Moon
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Ranger IX
Alphonsus
Gerard P. Kuiper
Kuiper
Opposition blasts Nicholson over Sibley case in Commons
Canadian opposition leaders denounce Immigration Minister Nicholson as they condemn barring American professor Mulford Q Sibley from Canada last Friday. They demand an apology and fault the government for bureacracy and perceived security flaws while Parliament mulls the Pension Plan.
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Ottawa
Nicholson
Commons
Mulford Q. Sibley
Canada
Diefenbaker
Douglas
University of Minnesota
Social Credit
Thompson
Sibley
Oice
Winnipeg
Prof
Sib
Liberals win Roxburgh Selkirk Peebles by election
Liberal candidate David Steel, 26, won the Roxburgh Selkirk and Peebles by election, defeating the late Cmdr C E M Donaldson’s Liberal replacement. the victory strengthens Liberal numbers to 10 in the 630 seat House and fuels talk of a possible general election. Labour saw no hope of winning and Tory hopes dimmed as the Liberal surge continued.
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London
David Steel
House of Commons
Roxburgh
Selkirk
Peebles
Cmdr
C. E. M. Donaldson
British Columbia
Donaldson
Labor
Favreau testifies on RCMP inquiry handling and Denis case
The minister says Sept 18 decision kept the matter internal with Rene Tremblay and that no charges of attempted bribery against Raymond Denis would be pursued. Favreau recalls telling RCMP commissioners the force fulfilled its obligations and that Tremblay, a lay official, did not face legal responsibility.
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RCMP
G. B. McClellan
J. R. Lemieux
Favreau
Rene Tremblay
Commission
Andre Desjardins
Mr. Favreau
Tremblay
Raymond Denis
Denis
Desjardins
Mr. Tremblay
China pledges troops if South Vietnamese want help
China for the first time says it will send troops to fight in South Vietnam if requested by the Viet Cong. The People's Daily vows China will provide arms and other war materials and join with the South Vietnamese people to defeat the United States. Russia (Brezhnev) says volunteers are offering to fight in the U S war as tensions rise.
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Peking
Reuters
China
South
Viet Nam
People’s Daily
South Vietnamese National Liberation Front
United States
Russia
Leonid Brezhnev
Kennedy Plants Flag on Summit of Mount Kennedy
Senator Robert Kennedy, a novice climber, planted a flag at the 13,900 foot summit of Mount Kennedy in Yukon Territory to honor his brother, President John F. Kennedy. He reached the top with seven National Geographic Society climbers after a day and a half of ascent and planned to depart for Whitehorse then Seattle.
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Whitehorse
Y.T
Mount Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
New York
RCAF
Seattle
Kennedy
National Geographic Society
Molly Brown returns from historic three orbit flight
Cape Kennedy Florida AP two man crew Virgil Grissom and John Young return to embarkation point after the first maneuverable spacecraft mission. They are greeted by band music and their families as they prepare for medical exams and de-briefings following an 81 000 mile flight from a Titan rocket.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Molly Brown
Virgil Grissom
John Young
Intrepid
Grissom
Young
Bioastronautics
The
Cape
Draw for Grand National tickets excludes Medicine Hat
The Irish sweepstakes draw for Saturday's Grand National Steeplechase entered its second day with no Medicine Hat or district ticket holders among the drawn names. On Wednesday the first batch of 40 of 94 eligible horses saw tickets held by 188 Canadians drawn.
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Medicine Hat
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